Magnetic stirrers have changed SWIM's life. Coupled with heating her naptha, yields have shot straight up for the variation of Norman's tek she uses. She uses a separatory funnel to keep all lye/mimosa mixture out of her naptha. She also always cleans with Sodium Carbonate. This last freeze precip. brought a much more yellow and powdery product. SWIM feels almost certain it's okay, just hope for some reassurance... ragabr attached the following image(s):  questin.jpg (133kb) downloaded 253 time(s). question1.jpg (174kb) downloaded 252 time(s).PK Dick is to LSD as HP Lovecraft is to Mushrooms
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This looks like very good stuff. Mines was this colour too after a carbonate wash and heated naptha and i must say it was very lovely 
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Awesome, thank you for the quick response DeMenTed! PK Dick is to LSD as HP Lovecraft is to Mushrooms
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ragabr wrote:Awesome, thank you for the quick response DeMenTed! No probs but if you have any worries you could always re-crystallise and you would have cleaner spice 
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Ive never had a prob w spice that looks like that..in fact about half of my friends stuff ends up looking like that.. just some oils and stuff, nothing bad. FYI- Anything I post here is just stuff made up by my crazy brother who lives in my closet. I feed him jellybeans.
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Thanks Praline! It's working out quite nicely. PK Dick is to LSD as HP Lovecraft is to Mushrooms
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So, how much would you say your yields have increased? How long do you stir each pull and at what temperature do you set the hotplate?
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SWIM's yields increased from an average of ~0.7g per 100g MHRB to about 1.1g using variation of Vovin's tek. She got some very old stir plates from a garage sell, so they do not have hot plates. PK Dick is to LSD as HP Lovecraft is to Mushrooms
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And are you swirling by hand at all, or is all mixing done with the stirrer? How long for each pull?
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